Premier Christy Clark is giving an unprecedented tax deal to the LNG industry: locked-in, rock-bottom tax-and-royalty rates, guaranteed for 25 years. It’s all designed to lure huge multinational energy companies to the province and finally start building the liquefied natural gas plants Clark promised in the last election

With her city at the vanguard of a possible economic boom generated by B.C.’s drive to create a thriving liquefied natural gas industry, it’s no wonder that Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan is busy. While the day is still relatively new, Monaghan, who won the mayoralty in 2008 to become the city’s first female mayor, has on this day already engaged in several important calls, including a conversation with representatives from energy giant Shell about the prospect of Helijet setting up a medevac service in the city of about 8,500.

It was the stunning absurdity of getting docked pay for “job action” he didn't take after working 70 hours of unpaid overtime that prompted a school psychologist to write an open letter to Premier Christy Clark.

‘When we meet the grizzlies,' said our guide, 'remember to keep quiet and stay still. Whatever you do, don't run.' There is an old saying that 'the prospect of a hanging sharpens a man's mind.' The prospect of meeting grizzly bears on their home turf has much the same effect.

Almost every Metro Vancouver resident at one time or another has sat at a local rail crossing for what seemed like hours as a long, long, long train carrying sea containers rumbled by. It's part of the joy of living in this neck of the woods.

From the waveswept drama of the Wickaninnish Inn on Vancouver Island's rugged Pacific coast to the slopeside luxury of Araxi or Bearfoot Bistro in Whistler, British Columbia offers a banquet of unforgettable dining experiences.

A jury is about to begin deliberations in the case of the sinking of the Queen of the North. Karl Lilgert, a former B.C. Ferries officer, is accused of criminal negligence causing the death of two passengers on the night the ferry sank on March 22, 2006. The trial began on Jan. 21 in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

A wealth of history and culture is on display in northern B.C., where artifacts in Prince Rupert’s Museum of Northern British Columbia reveal more than 10,000 years of settlement of the area, once one of the most populated parts of North America. The waterfront longhouse museum is home to an excellent collection of Northwest Coast first nations objects, from intricately painted bentwood boxes to ceremonial attire.

The first thing you should know about groundbreaking kidney transplant patient Mike Fulton is that he is positive. The Vancouver resident made Canadian history when he became the country’s very first HIV-positive transplant patient in 2005. His kidney transplant surgery, performed at St. Paul’s hospital, has since paved the way for other positive patients, saving lives in the process.

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